[randog]

"He held the country together!" Well, if President Bush gassed New York and California and outlawed the Democratic Party, he could impose the same sort of remarkable cohesion.

Hehehehe...

[Constitution Day]

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[frogjerk]

"He was a counterweight to Iran!"

Saddam proved to be some counterweight alright...

[frogjerk]

A murderous, genocidal, tyrant gets hung after a lengthy trial and an appeal and people are pissed off. The world is totally NUTZ!

[sauropod]

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[Volunteer]

This dictator, who allowed his sons to murder his people for sport, was put to death by his people.

Then CNN reports why it was bad that he was executed.

The NY Times laments his passing.

The folks over at NBC are practically in tears that he is gone.

Yet, the folks in the MSN can't understand why people continue to go elsewhere for the news.

[antiRepublicrat]

no man is above the law. Especially the one concerning gravity.

I like this line.

[Billthedrill]

It may be only from my personal perspective but it appears to me that the "outrage" is strangely muted, almost pro forma. About the only cogent argument you could make against the action is that the fellow didn't deserve it and I don't see that one flying even in the most fever-ridden swamps of leftwing blogdom.

The rest of it is fluff. "We put him in power" is simply ignorant and false, as is "Bush is just as bad" and "Saddam was the terrorists' enemy." These are comforting lies - the kiddies will sleep more quietly if they believe there never was a monster under the bed, and never mind the bones and claw marks. He's gone now.

[synbad600]

Thanks for the ping!

Great as always.

[Valin]

Tyrants in other countries might have felt a pang of unease at his end; all that money, all that power, all those glorious implements of fear and oppression at his disposal, and it still added up to a drop, a jolt, an ignominious yank captured on shaky cellphone video. No doubt tyrants have drawn the correct conclusion, too: Confiscate all the cell phones.

IRAN: SPECIAL POLICE CORPS CHARGED WITH CONTROLLING CELL PHONES
AKI ^

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1762301/posts
Posted on 01/04/2007 9:40:51 AM CST by Valin


Tehran, 4 Jan. (AKI) - A special police corps has been officially tasked with checking the cell phones of Iranians and in the past few days plain-clothes officials have started stopping passers-by in Iran's main cities to inspect their mobiles. All text messages and audio or video files considered 'illegal' are erased by the officials from this new corps. In the past few years, cell phones have reportedly become the main means to convey news which would never make it into the government-controlled Iranian media.

News on scandals, jokes on Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other political leaders, information on meetings, political assemblies and rallies mainly circulate via cell phones.
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Do the Mullahs read Lileks? :-)

[visualops]

Iraq's problems won't end until the terrorists' sponsors open the window one fine bright morning to find a Tomahawk sailing in their direction.

From your lips to the President's ears, James! Don't see it happening, but I can dream!